I have the Sussur Tree Bark; I have a plain 1d4 sickle (just because it's the only way I know of to get an enchanted sickle). I open the crafting menu. I can drag and drop either the sickle or the Sussur Tree Bark to the '+' symbol of the crafting menu. Then the fun starts - I cannot move anything to the '?' symbol of the crafting station:
- Drag and drop - fail.
- Double click - fail. If I double click the sickle, it gets wielded; if I double click the Sussur Tree Bark, it doesn't move.
- Starting crafting by dropping the sickle on the crafting station - fail. Just acts like dropping an item normally.
- Putting one item on the '+' symbol and adding the other one on top of it - fail. Just swaps the items.
- Putting one item on the '+' symbol and trying to move it to the '?' symbol - fail.
- Trying with a standard dagger or a standard greatsword - fail. Same exact symptoms as the sickle.
- Trying different crafting stations - fail. The furnace, anvil, and workbench under the blacksmith's house all work the same (except you have to light the furnace), and all fail.
Am I just missing something stupid and obvious or did patch 3 break this quest?
[edit] Figured it out. I will leave the post to help others irritated by this quest. You have to use the forge, combine the Sussur Tree Bark with the forge first, which turns it blue, then combine the weapon.
This is not intuitive, especially since the other combinations that uses a preset item (creating the Elixer of Sylvannus; poisoning the goblin's drinking vat) put an icon on the '?' symbol to show that it is already used.[/edit]